LEV J. BORKIN

TITLE:

Senior Researcher, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg.

EDUCATION:

Ph.D., biology, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Soil Sciences, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, 1966-1971.

POSITIONS:

Postgraduate student, Department of Evolutionary Zoology, Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences, Far Eastern Branch, Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok; joint with Department of Herpetology and Ornithology, Zoological Institute, Acad emy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 1971-1974.

Senior Laboratory Assistant, 1975-1977, Junior Research Fellow, 1977-1986, Research Fellow, 1986-1990, Senior Research Fellow, 1990-present, Department of Herpetology and Ornithology, Zoological Institute, Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

Societas Europaea Herpetologica, Russian Committee on Zoological Nomenclature, Russian Herpetological Society, USSR Association of Scientists, St.Petersburg Association of Scientists, Canadian Association of Herpetologi sts, Asiatic Herpetological Society.

FIELD EXPERIENCE:

Mongolia, Joint Soviet-Mongolian Integrated Biological Expedition, 1981, 1982; Soviet Marine Expedition to the Seychelles Islands, 1984; numerous collecting expeditions throughout Siberia and the Russian Far East, including e xtensive work on Sakhalin and the southern Kuril Islands.

PUBLICATIONS:

Since 1971, a total of 127 scientific papers on the systematics distribution, hybridization, ecology, and conservation and amphibians and reptiles.

Five publications most relevant to the present proposal:

• BORKIN, L. J., and Yu. M. Korotkov. 1981. On the protection of the amphibians and reptiles of Siberia and the USSR Far East. pp. 28-37, In: L. J. Borkin (ed.), Herpetological Investigations in Siberia and the Far East. Leningrad.

• BORKIN, L. J., and A. M. Bassarukin. 1984. Distribution, ecology, and morphological variation in the Siberian salamander, Hynobius keyserlingii, on Sakhalin Island. Proc. Zool. Inst., USSR Acad. Sci., Leningrad, 124: 12 -54.

• BORKIN, L. J., and V. G. Krever. 1987. Protection of amphibians and reptiles in natural reserves of the Russian Federation. pp. 39-53, In: I. S. Darevsky and V. G. Krever (eds.), Amphibians and Reptiles of Protected Territories. Moscow.

• BORKIN, L. J., and S. L. Kuzmin. 1988. Amphibians of Mongolia. pp. 30-197, In: E. I. Vorobieva and I. S. Darevsky (eds.), Amphibians and Reptiles of the Mongolian People's Republic. Moscow.

• BORKIN, L. J., M. Nishioka, M. Sumida, and Z. Wu. 1992. Genetic differentiation of thirty populations of amphibians of the Palearctic region elucidated by the electrophoretical method. Sci. Rep. Lab. Amphibian Biol., Hiroshima Univ., 11(3): 109 -160.